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timfromengland

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Re: Portraits of HM the Queen Elizabeth II
« Reply #75 on: March 17, 2011, 10:37:05 AM »
 I wonder just how many portraits the Queen has sat for in her long career ?
wonder if  the Duke and the Prince have  done a portrait of her ?

Alexander1917

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Re: Portraits of HM the Queen Elizabeth II
« Reply #76 on: March 17, 2011, 11:30:34 AM »
I wonder just how many portraits the Queen has sat for in her long career ?
wonder if  the Duke and the Prince have  done a portrait of her ?

I think the Prince Andrew did some photos some years ago.

the BBC state that there are more then 130 portraits. I remember to read a higher figure. (was a article about the Golden Jubilee)
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Re: Portraits of HM the Queen Elizabeth II
« Reply #77 on: March 17, 2011, 04:06:56 PM »
When the Queen turned 80 the palace published 80 facts about her life and reign.  Fact #38 read (copied from the Monarchy's website):

38. The Queen has sat for 139 official portraits during her lifetime, two of which were with The Duke of Edinburgh. The most recent sitting was for Rolf Harris (2005). Her Majesty was just seven years old when she sat for her first portrait in 1933, which was commissioned by her mother and painted by the Hungarian artist Philip Alexius de László.

I imagine there have been at least a dozen or more in the years since.

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Re: Portraits of HM the Queen Elizabeth II
« Reply #78 on: June 01, 2011, 12:11:40 PM »
The coronation of the Queen